on making / how i think about all of it:
In my studio practice, I see debris as a resource. Drawing from a stockpile of found materials, tools, and images, I improvise with what is at hand. Through gentle nudges, notices, and gestures, I coax the work into existence-- paying careful attention to the pre-existing character embedded in the material. In most cases, an object’s subjectivity or assigned role is deactivated as soon as it enters the studio space, often spending several months rubbing up against various other found materials before finding a spot in the work. I am interested in the subtle character that a mark develops through various forms of transfer; the forms tend to retain the essence of the source while simultaneously fostering the unpredictable marks of chance. I am equally interested in how utilizing the detritus that surrounds me could indicate an autobiography or say something about experience. I see the studio as a permeable environment, existing remotely anywhere that objects, images, tools, and ideas converge and ask me: “what is possible?”
CV
Zander Raymond
Born 2000, San Diego, CA
Living and Working in Chicago, IL
Email: raymond.zander@gmail.com
Selected Exhibitions
2023
NADA House (Exhibited artist with Weatherproof), Governors Island, New York
"Green Grass Summer" at Devening Projects, Chicago, IL
“Braid” at Weatherproof (group) (The Annex), Chicago, IL
“10 Desirous Adjustments” (group) hosted by Switchhook Projects at the American Back Center, Chicago, IL
2022
“Zander Raymond In the Hole” (solo) Weatherprooof (the hole)
“Fall Ability” (group) at MAYFIELD, Forest Park, IL
“please return me to the machine” (solo) at Agatha’s in Buffalo, NY
Installation in the Compound Yellow booth at MDW fair
2021
A garden, A hole (group) curated by Elena Ailes
A Train to my Dream (group), February 12- 26, Gummies Gallery (in conjunction with Workshop 4200), Chicago, IL
2020
Webmaking (solo), Okay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Publications / Music Releases
2023
- “Secrets from a Squirrel” by Zander Raymond (Florabelle Records)
- "Parayellowgram" By M. Sage & Zander Raymond (Moonglyph Records)
2022
- “Separate in Space” by Zander Raymond (Self Released)
- “Qualia” By Dan Derks and Zander Raymond (Cached.media)
- To Have Several Lives (released on Sound as Language)
2021
- “Wants a Diamond Pivot Bright” by M. Sage + Friends (Florabelle Records)
- “Facsimiles” by Zander Raymond – full color printed artist’s book and small object encased in a screen-printed envelope (Cached.media)
2020
- Collaborative Print with Nick Butcher and Gianni Andreatta included in Sonnenzimmer’s “Per Diem: Graphics in Time”
- “Interstices” by Zander Raymond (self-released)
- “Seymour” by Andreatta, Raymond, Sage (Cached.media) collaborative project with Matthew Sage (M.Sage) and Gianni Andreatta